Support for carriage-lamps.



H. L. COWLES. SUPPORT FOR. CARRIAGE LAMPS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 25, 1909.

965,158. a nted July 26, 1910.

WITNESSES: Ill/VENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

HIRAM' LfcowLEs, or rmncnron, MINNESOTA.

surrorvr For. CARRIAGE-LAMPS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 26, 1 92).- Applicationfiled May 25, 1909. Serial No. 498,270.

To all whom it may concern:

Be 1t known that I, HIRAM L. CowLEs, a

citizen of the United States, and residing at Princeton, in the countyof Millelacs and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new andusefulImprovements in Supports for Carriage-Lamps, of which the following is aspecification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relatesto supports for carriage lamps; and the objectthereof is to provide an improved device of this class by means of whicha carriage lamp may be easily secured to the pole of a carriage; afurther object being to provide a lamp support of the class specifiedwhereby the lamp may be connected with the pole of a carriage andadjusted in a vertical plane so as to project the rays of light fartherfrom or nearer to the carriage as may be desired.-

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate partsof my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters ineach of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a side view of a part of acarriage pole and showing my-improvement connected therewith, and ;Fig.2 a partial section on the line 2-'2 of Fig. 1.

In the drawing forming part of this specification, I have shown at a apart of a pole of a carriage, and in the practice of my invention Iprovide a lamp support adapted to be connected with said pole andcomprising two clamp members 6 which are r1ngshaped in form and adaptedto inclose the pole at and which comprise stationary segmental members 6and hinged members 6 the hinge members 6 being connected with thestationary members at b.

Thestationary members 6 of the clamp members I) are provided with shanksb which are integrally connected at b and provided with a depending armI) having a forwardly directed extension b*. I have also shown at c anordinary carriage lamp which may be constructed in the usual or anydesired manner, and with which is connected a clamp band or othersecuring device 0 having a backwardlydirected arm d or other securingdevice .0 at 0, or which may be integrally connected-therewith, and

the arm 01 1S pivoted to the arm I) at .0 and the rear end of said armis rovided with adownwardly directed extenslon d in which is formed a seental slot d passed through said sot and through the arm I) is a screw 6havin a head b which it may be convenient y manipula The movable parts bof the clamp members b are provided at their free ends with jaws f, andsaid movable parts of the clamp members are held in operative positionby which may be secured to the' cla mp band I and screws 9 passedthrough' the shank members b of the stationary parts 71 of said clampmembers I), and either the stationary parts or the movable parts of saidclamp memand by means of this construction the support may be rigidlysecured to the pole and the lamp may be adjusted vertically or turned ina vertical plane and secured in any desired position in such plane aswill be readily understood.

My invention is not limited to the exact details of construction hereinshown and described, and various changes therein and modificationsthereof may be made, within the scope of the appended claim, withoutdeparting from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing itsadvantages.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A lamp support adapted to be connected with the pole of a carriage andconsisting of two parallel and integrally connected clamp rings orbands, comprising stationary and movable jaws hinged together, setscrews passing through onejaw of each ring or band and adapted to bearon the pole of at its rear end with a vertically arranged the carriage,said stationary jaws bein also.

bers are provided with screws h which are passed therethrough and areprovided with, pointed ends adapted to enter the pole a,

member havingg slot-fauna} therein, and a my invention 1 have signed my,name in set screw pasglng ithtiough "slaid-"fsldt iaLndL presence of thesubscribmg witnesses this 7 through this rear part ofsaid forw'a'rdiy di22nd day of May 1909.

reacted member, Wherby the-position of the v HIRAM L. COWLES. ii lamp.onsaid member mayb'vrhiallyad- Witnesses: justecl JOSEPH C. BORDEN,

In testimony that l claim the fdre go'ing as V F RANK H. GOULDING.

